It Started With Sweet Revenge

Sirius didn’t stop running until he reached the staircases. He panted out of breath as he began to climb them his head was buzzing with thoughts, the images of what happened just a few minutes ago on constant repeat as he hurried up to the Gryffindor tower.
What the fuck was wrong with him? He had kissed Snape, not only that but he’d shoved his tongue down his throat right in the middle of the corridor for no reason.
Sirius felt sick to his stomach, the way Snape was talking to him earlier, saying how he enjoyed having sex with him. Sirius scoffed, it wasn’t even proper sex, if that hole had disappeared it would have all been forgotten about, no more strange entrances, but no, he was pregnant from Snape’s pathetic revenge, he hated the boy, Snape made him sick to his stomach. Yet in some small corner of his mind he liked it, he liked having the attention from that Slytherin, he liked being there with him, he liked him to speak those words, he like the feel of their lips and bodies pressing together.
Sirius ran through the common room, up the stairs and burst into the dormitory startling both Remus and Regulus.
“Merlin Sirius! What the hell is wrong with you?” Remus gasped lying in bed under the covers with a fully clothed Regulus on top of him.
“Sorry guys” Sirius said, he took one look at them, turned round and went down into the common room closing the door to give them their privacy.
He made his way down into the common room feeling stunned, confused, hurt and devastated. There was so much going on in his head right now he couldn’t understand it, he just couldn’t figure out what all of these feelings were and why they were coming on so strongly.
Sirius sank down on the comfy old sofa with his head in his hands thankful there was nobody else around to see him.
“What is happening to me?” he whispered lifting his head to gaze into the crackling fire when suddenly a thought hit him.
He should go marching back down there right now and punch Snape right in his slimy gob, yeah, that would teach him. Sirius jumped to his feet a sudden wave of anger hitting him before he paused.
What would be the point in hitting Snape? He’d already snogged his face off barely five minutes ago, no way would he still be just standing there in the corridor staring into space he was probably in his common room or dormitory laughing it up thinking this was all one great big joke by now.
Sirius sat himself back down slowly glancing up in the direction of the dormitory. It would probably be best if he stayed down here a while and gave the other two some privacy, it wouldn’t be fair to go upsetting them just because he was in a mood about kissing Snape…. Again.
Sirius cringed at the thought.
Why in the name of Merlin when there was hundreds of other students in the castle that wouldn’t mind having a relationship with him or even just a bit of fun did he have to be slowly falling for Snape.
And then it hit him.
He was slowly but surely starting to fall for Snape. Sirius resisted the over powering urge to gag at this, he waited and waited for it to come but it didn’t. Now he knew there was something seriously wrong with him, maybe Snape had cast some sort of spell on him or maybe he spiked his morning pumpkin juice with another creepy potion and it was making him act strangely, a love potion!
But no surely Sirius wouldn’t be able to think straight or behave in a relatively normal fashion if it was a love potion.
Sirius sat for two hours debating with himself, arguing with his own mind over this trying to come up with logical and sensible reasons as to why he would be thinking about Snape, why he would catch himself gazing at the slippery little Slytherin, why he wanted to force him up against the wall, his wand rammed under his chin cursing the day he was born, why he wanted to hold him down and softly kiss him until the rest of the Earth melted away around them.
“Sirius are you coming down for some lunch?” Remus’ voice called down the stairs.
Sirius got up abruptly and stared in the direction of his voice. “Yeah sure come on then”
He watched as Remus appeared his hand curled around something discreet and invisible, Regulus’ hand.
“Are you okay you’ve been gone for ages and you seem sort of.... upset” Remus hesitated a little.
“I’m fine, let’s go” Sirius smiled.
They walked out onto the staircases and down into the entrance hall. Sirius slipped the other two into an alcove where Remus pulled off the cloak and tucked it into his bag.
“I can see you again” Remus grinned.
“It’s kind of fun being invisible” Regulus chuckled as they came out and followed Sirius into the great hall.
They sat down at the Gryffindor table, the rest of the stay behind’s didn’t even bother that Regulus was with them as they started eating their lunch of beef, cranberry sauce and all the festive trimmings.
“I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve, where has this year gone?” Remus mused.
“I know, fourteen weeks since I fell pregnant, doesn’t seem like fourteen days!” Sirius laughed. He glanced over to the Slytherin table his eyes scanning it for any trace of Snape. He wasn’t here.
Sirius wasn’t surprised though, Snape often skipped breakfast or lunch. Trying not to draw attention to himself he flipped the conversation to something else.
“So are you two still coming out in the new year?”
The two boys glanced at one another.
“We think so” said Regulus. “It’s really nerve wracking, people aren’t going to like this”
“They’ll get over it, being gay is pretty normal here” Sirius smiled reassuringly. “What about mum and dad, have you or are you going to tell them?”
“Oh Merlin no, at least not right just yet” Regulus breathed.
“We were thinking of telling them later on and just saying we’re friends” Remus said.
“Yeah that might take some of the heat off and I’ll try to get them to meet Remus to see he’s really a great person” Regulus smiled at his lover.
“Wow that’s a big step” Sirius replied looking from one to the other and back again. “Once they’ve met him will you tell them he’s your boyfriend?”
Regulus nodded proudly.
“And how are you going to convince them to take the time out from their pathetic lives to meet the lucky bloke their son is all over” Sirius smirked teasingly watching them both blush slightly.
“I’m going to play the favourite card and the innocent little boy act, that always works, I can get whatever I want when I try they can’t say no to me and my baby face” Regulus smirked.
“You cunning little Slytherin”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Regulus’ eyebrows rose questioningly, his face was split into a smirk.
“I think it’s a very good thing” Remus commented with a gracious smile.
The three of them burst out laughing.
Sirius managed to polish off three helpings of dinner and two rounds of dessert as well as an entire jug of pumpkin juice himself.
“I’m feeling stuffed” he yawned stroking his hands over his little bump.
“I’m not surprised” Regulus chuckled still sipping at his drink.
“We should enter you in an eating competition, no doubt you’d win hands down” Remus teased.
“Yeah well baby’s hungry, what can I say?” he grinned. They made their way out into the entrance hall, Sirius glanced down the dungeon corridor when something caught his eye. It was Snape coming towards the great hall. He wasn’t exactly late to lunch but it was past the midway point, Sirius stared at him suspiciously, thankfully Snape hadn’t noticed him there as he headed up the stairs with the other two. Remus had used a sneaky moment to throw the cloak over Regulus so they could get him back to the Gryffindor tower without any hassle.
“Come on Sirius let’s go to the common room” Remus hissed.
“Sorry mate, coming”
The rest of the day flew by and before they knew it, it was time to go down for some Christmas dinner. Sirius was rather looking forward to it, in his experience dinner at the castle on Christmas was always an amazing event.
When they entered the great hall they noticed there seemed to be even more decorations, banners up everywhere, festive music playing in the back ground and streamers whizzing all over the place. As usual the ceiling was snowing down on them and everything seemed like a perfect little Christmas.
“Wow this looks amazing” Regulus grinned excitedly.
“Have you ever spent a Christmas in the castle before?” Remus asked as they dropped into their seats at the Gryffindor table.
Regulus shook his head. “No I haven’t I wasn’t expecting it to be so cool”
“Aw Reggie’s acting like a little kid again” Sirius teased.
“Oh shut up you” Regulus laughed.
They piled their plates and began to shovel their food in hungrily.
“Careful you two or people might start thinking that you’re pregnant as well” Sirius smirked.
“Don’t even joke like that” Remus glared.
“Oh look there’s Snape” Regulus commented watching the greasy Slytherin make his way into the great hall without sparing them a glance as he made his way down the Slytherin table to sit with a small group of younger students.
Sirius guessed even Snivellus wouldn’t want to spend his whole Christmas alone and miserable.
“Ugh let’s not waste out time talking about him I don’t want to lose my dinner” Sirius pretended to gag taking his eyes off of the person he had just kissed that very morning.
“Sirius did I tell you?” Remus asked nudging the food around his plate, a nervous habit Sirius had seen him do before.
“What?”
Remus and Regulus exchanged looks before Remus took a deep breath.
“I told Regulus about my.... furry little problem”
Sirius’ mouth fell open and his fork clattered onto his plate. “You what?!”
“Don’t look too surprised I’m fine with it, really” Regulus smiled casually.
Sirius stared at his younger brother in utter shock for a moment. He couldn’t believe it, Remus had actually told Regulus about his Lycanthropy and the most shocking things of all was that Regulus was actually fine with it, he wasn’t angry or upset and he didn’t even seem frightened.
“Look I know what you’re thinking and no I am not scared of Remus I know he isn’t dangerous unless he’s transformed” Regulus said quietly. “I was shocked at first when he told me last weekend but now I feel fine with it”
“I’m really shocked....”
“I was too when he came running after me, pushed me into the snow and began kissing the life out of me in Hogsmeade” Remus blushed.
“Wow....” Sirius breathed looking between the two his eyes wide.
“It’s just, I think Remus is a great person and he’s so kind and so much fun to be around, he’s easy to get on with and he’s clever and cute it’s all I ever wanted in a boyfriend so why pass it up just because of one small ‘furry’ problem”
“Make that a huge furry problem, I’m massive” Remus admitted nervously.
“Well to be honest there are far worse things, you could be a child molester, you could be a rapist, you could be a serial killer” Regulus pointed out.
“That’s very true” Sirius nodded.
“But I’m none of those things I’m a monster” Remus said awkwardly.
“I don’t think you are but if you insist then you’re my monster” Regulus smiled warmly.
“Aww that’s so cute, why are you so cute together?” Sirius smiled feeling that familiar pang of jealousy hit him. How was this fair?
“A lot of people won’t call it cute when they find out” Regulus said. “So make the most of it”
“Hey don’t get upset if they react badly, or some of them anyway, it will just be a shock, if you want to be together don’t let anything break that no matter what people say, if it makes you happy go with it and don’t let other people stand in your way they’re only jealous” Sirius said firmly.
Both of them looked to one another and nodded with grins.
“Agreed” they said.
After dinner they hurried out of the great hall before Professor Slughorn could start singing, heading back up to the dormitory, Sirius collapsed into bed with a loud yawn.
“I don’t know about you two but I’m beat” he sighed.
“Today has just flown by” Remus commented as he pulled on his night shirt right in full view of Regulus. “You don’t mind if I pull these off do you?” he asked quietly running his fingers around the waist band of his boxers.
Regulus’ eyes seemed to twinkle for a moment before he shook his head smiling. “No, not at all”
“Thanks” Remus winked slipping into bed, he watched Regulus change as he joined him.
“Sirius isn’t there anyone you fancy?” Remus asked snuggling up to Regulus. “I know you’re having a baby but surely there’s someone you like or someone who would accept you both”
“No” Sirius lied.
“Couldn’t you like, try to find someone?” Regulus suggested.
“No”
“Why don’t you just make an effort I mean, sure you’re having a baby, but lots of people do that and lots of people still find love” Remus said.
“I don’t want to I just.... can’t”
“Why not?” Regulus sighed.
“I don’t know I haven’t thought about it and I don’t want to” Sirius replied. “I’m off to sleep now you guys try not to make too much noise” he grumbled pulling the drapes closed around his four poster bed.
“Night” they called.
Sirius lay awake for a little while his mind on what Remus had said. He lay on his back with his hands behind his head staring up at the canopy over his bed, he could hear the little shuffling sounds, giggles and the sound of lips pressing together but he ignored most of it. Why couldn’t he be like that with someone?
Because he knew that person he would choose would be Snape....
There was no way they could be together, no way would anyone allow it, no way would people see Sirius as the same, no way would anybody want to see them out canoodling together.
Sirius frowned, but they should be allowed to, they should be able to have what other people had.
Another thought struck him like a blow to the chest.
What if Snape didn’t like him back?
Sirius rolled onto his side and buried himself under the bed covers with a sigh. He would think about this maybe tomorrow or in a couple of days, all he wanted to do from this moment forth was enjoy Christmas properly without having to worry about Severus fucking Snape.
The next morning Sirius opened his eyes and groaned blinking himself awake. It felt too early but he was almost a thousand percent sure it wasn’t. Yawning he rubbed his tired eyes and settled back under the bed covers, at least he slept last night.
Suddenly the drapes were yanked back as Regulus came bounding through them and jumped on the end of his bed, he shuffled up to lean over Sirius and gently bounced the bed.
“Sirius, Sirius, Sirius!” he squealed excitedly.
“What is it, Regulus?” Sirius grumbled closing his eyes again.
“Wake up it’s Christmas, you’ve got presents, we all have!” Regulus beamed.
Sirius sighed inwardly. Regulus could be so cute sometimes.
“Alright, alright I’m up, go harass Remus” he waved his brother off as he sat up slowly and stretched.
“I already have” Regulus flashed a grin before jumping off the bed and moving to Remus’ side where he began tearing the wrapping paper off his own pile of presents.
Sirius sighed and reached for the little pile at the end of his bed. He picked one up that was wrapped in green metallic paper. Figures who this would be from.
He rolled his eyes playfully and checked the tag. He knew it, it was from Regulus. Tearing off the neatly wrapped paper he grinned. It was a little set of hair products that he obviously knew Sirius would enjoy. Picking up the next one from Regulus, it was large and soft, unwrapping it he smiled, it was a brand new maroon hoodie, pretty large obviously for when Sirius gets bigger.
“Thanks Reg” Sirius grinned opening the last present from his little brother, it just so happened to be his own toy Snitch, apparently Regulus had seen him playing around with James’ and bought him one that would fly away and you could either catch it or it would come whizzing back to your hand after performing some tricks.
“Don’t mention it, I like the stuff you got me” Regulus grinned already wearing his own new black hoodie over his nightshirt.
Sirius yawned reaching for the presents from Remus, James and Peter. James bought him a set of mini Gryffindor Quidditch robes (obviously for the baby) with Sirius’ surname imprinted across the back of them. Peter got him an enormous box of chocolates and Remus bought him a pair of books on pregnancy and labour, they were more insightful and contained stories from women who had babies, one of them even had a small section written by a man who was pregnant.
“Blood hell Moony you’ve done great finding these!” Sirius grinned.
“I knew you’d like them and they’re practical” Remus smirked.
There were no presents from Sirius’ family other than a Christmas card and a new writing set from his cousin Andromeda.
Sirius sighed to himself shoving all the torn paper into the bin with his wand, he looked up at Remus and Regulus laughing and messing around with their presents on the bed.
Sirius was about to lie back down under his covers when he spotted something. It was a small present sitting right on the edge of the bed, it looks like it was about to fall off. Curiously, Sirius reached out and picked it up. It was light, soft and very neatly wrapped in shiny silver paper.
“What?” he asked in confusion checking for a tag, his heart jumped when he found one with just the words ‘S. Black’ written inside. Curiously he tore open the wrappings, a piece of card fell out but in his hands was an adorable cream coloured fluffy teddy bear.
His eyes dropped to the piece of card and he picked it up.
‘For the baby, don’t know what you’re having so I got a cream one, take care’
Sirius stared at the words written in that familiar neat cursive his heart was hammering in his chest. Now he was sure this was from Snape. Quickly he checked the bear over, not finding anything wrong with it he rested it on the bedside table staring at it warily as though it might burst into flames.
“Who’s that from?” Regulus asked breaking through his train of thought.
“Hmm?”
“The bear” Regulus pointed to it curiously.
“Oh it’s umm, from the baby’s dad” Sirius held up the card.
Regulus jumped to his feet with Remus and hurried over to snatch up the card reading the same single line Sirius had. He turned it over in his hands but the other side was blank.
Regulus and Sirius exchanged wary looks.
“Sirius.... who is the father?” Remus asked quietly. When Sirius didn’t answer, he just stared off into space, Remus turned to Regulus helplessly.
“It doesn’t matter he obviously doesn’t want you to know” Sirius finally said nodding towards the card in Remus’ hands.
“Well, in my opinion, this shows he does care” Remus commented.
“I think he’s just trying to irritate me” Sirius said.
“Maybe but at least he’s sent you something, it would have been worse if he hadn’t have done anything”
“I don’t know about that” Sirius sighed. Trust Snape to make things a thousand times more awkward than necessary.
“How about we go down and get some breakfast?” Regulus suggested trying to lighten the heavy mood hanging over them.
“That’s a fine idea” Remus nodded.
The three of them got dressed and headed down to the great hall, the decorations seemed somehow more extravagant today than they had last night.
“I never realised that Christmas in the castle could be so magical” Regulus said as they took their seats.
Despite the lack of students the buzz and excitement in the air was strong and the noise was fairly loud. Sirius couldn’t help but steal a glance to the Slytherin table where Snape sat eating his breakfast slowly, he appeared to be deep in thought.
“Sirius....”
Maybe he was wondering if Sirius received the gift, if he knew it was from him, if he even liked it or he threw it away.
“SIRIUS!” Remus shouted snapping him out of it.
“Hmm? Sorry”
“We were just saying that after breakfast we’re going for a walk in the grounds” Remus said bluntly. “Do you want to come?”
“Oh.... no thanks I’m just gonna have a walk in the castle” Sirius said trying to stare past Remus to continue watching Snape.
“You sure? Some fresh air might do you good….”
“Nah if I wanted fresh air I could stick my head out the dorm window” Sirius flashed one of his usual cheeky grins.
“Fair enough....” Remus said.
They finished off the rest of their food, Sirius got up when he saw Snape making his way to the double doors. He followed Snape out with Remus and Regulus by his sides. He watched as Snape headed for the stairs much to his surprise, he didn’t even have this things on him so where could he be going? Surely not the library, sure it was open today but why would he want to spend Christmas day in there.
“We’re off out then, we’ll see you a bit later on” Remus said staring worriedly at a seemingly rather quiet Sirius.
“Okay that’s fine have a nice time” Sirius nodded smiling to them both.
“Bye” Regulus called.
He watched them turn and leave through the doors a chilly breeze blew through the room making Sirius shudder. He waited until the doors were closed before he hurried for the stairs.
He almost ran the first flight, spotting Snape not far ahead of him he followed a calm but quick pace making sure he didn’t lose him.
Snape headed up apparently to the sixth floor and along the charms corridor, Sirius followed him trying to be as quiet as he could, curious to know where the young Slytherin was heading.
He crept down the corridor after him, Snape turned down into a darker hallway and stopped. He stood there for a good minute, Sirius hung back a little way staring at him, he knew if he moved he would reveal himself. What was Snape playing at loitering around here like that? Talk about acting weird much….
“It’s nice to know I have a stalker, Black” his cool smooth voice made Sirius jump. “Although, I can’t say as you’re very good at it you know, you should try being sneaky for once”
Snape turned to face him standing in a relaxed position, hands by his sides just staring blankly at Sirius.
Feeling uncomfortable and unsure of what to do, Sirius took several steps forward so he could get a clearer view of Snape.
“What’s the matter Black? Nothing to say? That’s not like you....” Snape taunted moving forward by about two feet on his own. Another step closer and they would be in a decent range, enough to have a proper conversation, they were standing just a little too far apart right now.
Sirius swallowed nervously. “How do you know I’m following you and not just coming here of my own accord? The Gryffindor tower is on the seventh floor you know” he pointed.
Severus’ thin lips curled into a smirk. “Then why did you stop at the sixth floor?”
“Because I was looking for something”
“Like what?”
“None of your business, Snivellus” Sirius snapped.
“Were you by any chance following me?” the Slytherin tilted his head to one side the smirk playing heavily on his features.
“In your dreams”
“You were, do you want to know how I can tell?” Snape chuckled.
“How?” Sirius sighed impatiently, his heart was hammering nervously in his chest. Cool, confident, back talking Sirius Black couldn’t even think of as proper come back to measly, pathetic little Snape. But he wasn’t just pathetic Severus anymore, he was becoming something else in Sirius’ mind.
“You stopped when I did and waited for me to speak to you” Severus began. “You know I’m surprised you did after what happened yesterday, I thought afterwards that maybe you would be gone now for sure, or maybe you’d like to forget all about me and run off back to your friends, by the way I see you’ve roped your brother into hanging around with you all the time now”
“Leave Regulus out of this, he’s got nothing to do with you” Sirius growled his eyes flashing dangerously.
“Believe me I have very little interest in doing anything to Regulus Black” Snape sighed.
A sudden wave of Gryffindor courage hit Sirius, he took a deep breath and stepped close enough to Snape for it to be a proper meeting not just two people standing a slight distance apart. “I don’t want any more of your games, Snape, what was that bullshit this morning?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about” Severus rolled his eyes rather bored.
“Don’t play dumb with me you little weasel!” Sirius snapped pointing the accusing finger in Snape’s face. “You sent me that present for the baby, your silly little teddy bear”
Severus stared at him his eyes filled with worry. “And? Can I not send my own child something for Christmas?” his voice was surprisingly soft.
Sirius was taken aback by this and stood staring at him in confusion his lips slightly parted. “Since when did you care about the baby, you already told me you don’t give a damn about it!”
“I don’t have to care very much to send something to you, I knew it would upset you and after all it is my child too you can’t say I haven’t given you anything now” Severus said quietly.
Sirius did not know what to do, Snape was being so.... weird about this whole thing. He shook his head his long hair brushing the sides of his face. “I know you, you’re selfish, whatever you’ve done you’re doing it for yourself”
“On the contrary, Black, you think I’m selfish, all I did was buy a toy, wrap it up and send it to you unmarked I did you a favour I could have sent a howler with it, or wrote my name all over it or even made it sing if you liked” he shrugged nervously.
“What do you want from me?” Sirius sighed talking more to himself than to Snape really, his eyes dropped to his shoes.
A smile twitched in the corner of Severus’ mouth but Sirius didn’t see it. “I never said I wanted anything from you, but I know you want something from me” he breathed.
Sirius met his eye and they stared at one another for a good few seconds.
“After what happened yesterday, I know how to push your buttons now, I know how to make you want me, I know how you like it, I know what you want” Severus breathed his voice low and husky.
“I don’t want anything from you!” Sirius spat his voice cracking slightly, enough for Severus to pick up on.
“You’re going soft, Black”
“No I’m not I could easily smash your head through the floor right now, do you want to test me?” Sirius snarled grabbing Snape by his long ebony hair.
Snape yelped with surprise and cowered under Sirius’ touch, his hands flew defencelessly to grab hold of Sirius’ wrist. It was a weak and pathetic gesture but it was more than enough to satisfy Sirius, a nasty smile spread across his handsome face.
“Whatever you’re trying to play I’m not going to fall into your trap, you and I both know that I’m better than you and I’m worth a lot more than you are, people actually like me, Snape, not just hang around with me and use me for whatever nasty little curses I know, they don’t use me as an extra number added to their group they like me for me, do you know what that’s like?” he tilted his head to one side mocking the smaller boy.
His words stung Severus more than they should have. He averted his dark eyes trying to focus on something else apart from the stinging pain in his scalp. Sirius still hadn’t let go of him only tightened his grip, he couldn’t deny it, he was frightened.
Severus chose not to say anything and Sirius just stood staring at him. Time seemed to pass incredibly slowly until he eventually loosened and released his grip on Snape’s hair.
The both lowered his arms slowly not even bothering to lift them up to fix his hair down flat again he just stared at the ground.
Very slowly, Severus looked up into Sirius’ face and they gazed at one another in confusion for just a little while until Severus said in such a small voice it frightened Sirius.
“Why don’t you just kiss me again?” he breathed.
A split second later, Sirius’ hand was in his hair combing through it pulling his face into his own, their lips crushed together passionately in a ferocious kiss, it was far more powerful than the one they shared yesterday morning, this one was fuelled by frustration, pent up anger, their nerves and their fears.
Every emotion seemed to be leaking out of Sirius as he parted his lips and allowed Severus’ tongue to push into his mouth urgently pressing on his own.
Unconsciously Sirius’ left arm draped around Severus’ waist pulling him in closer so his tummy was almost against Sirius’ bump. He felt Sirius reach up shakily and drape his arms around Sirius’ neck pushing his face in closer, their tongues battling in an urgent battle.
Sirius was surprised when a very soft breathy moan escaped Snape’s lips, he seemed to tense up a bit and slow down his kissing for just a few seconds as though expecting some terrible reaction. When none came he leaned further into Sirius’ lips.
Very slowly, Sirius’ hand crept its way around to Severus’ side, he cracked his eyes open a fraction to check how he was reacting, he seemed fine so slowly Sirius began to push his hand under the fabric of Snape’s hoodie.
When his fingers brushed the smooth warm skin underneath he emitted an involuntary moan. Severus’ skin was surprisingly soft, it felt delicate like the petals of a rose, Sirius was extremely careful as he held Severus in his arms, he felt as though he would hurt him at the slightest touch.
A strange sensation was tingling in the pit of Severus’ stomach as Sirius’ fingers gently brushed over his pale skin, it felt so nice to be kissed and touched even if it was only a curious feel it wasn’t anything sexual or bad it actually felt…. Nice. Nobody had ever touched him so softly before in his life.
Their lips began to slow down into soft, tender kisses against once another’s lips, their tongues rolled in smooth, gentle motions rather than the furious hungry kisses earlier designed to devour one another.
They kissed for what seemed like hours before slowly but surely the kisses grew slowly until finally they stopped, Sirius and Severus’ foreheads were just pressed together.
Very slowly, Sirius began to open his eyes gazing into Severus’. They remained like that for some time before pulling apart and just staring awkwardly at one another.
For a while neither of them said anything, neither of them had any idea what to say.
Outside in the grounds....
“Regulus, can I ask you something?” Remus said as they strolled along the edge of the Forbidden forest.
Regulus glanced at his boyfriend, he could see the confusion and worry written across Remus’ face.
“Anything”
Remus paused and they walked a bit further along in silence, their feet making tracks in the virgin snow. When he did speak his voice was low and gentle. “Do you know who the baby’s father is?”
Regulus’ eyes dropped to the ground and he stopped walking.
Remus paused two steps ahead and stared back at the boy, he looked as though he was battling with himself, he looked extremely indecisive. “Yes” he said finally.
Remus swallowed and stepped closer to him, he had a feeling Regulus knew just the way he and Sirius were around each other and the way they looked at each other that very morning when Regulus read the card. “Who is he?”
Regulus breathed a long drawn out sigh and looked Remus straight in the face. “Sirius swore me to secrecy on the day he found out about the baby”
Remus’ mouth hung open as he gaped at his boyfriend, he had no idea Sirius had just gone off and told Regulus so quickly. Mind you, this had obviously proven the Slytherin to be extremely trustworthy.
“O-okay, but can you tell me?” Remus asked a hint of hopefulness in his voice.
Regulus stared at him a moment before grimacing and slowly shaking his head. “He swore me to secrecy, I would love to tell you Remus I honestly would” Regulus spoke honestly taking both of Remus’ hands in his own. “But he asked me not to tell a soul, I just can’t break promises with people I can’t break that trust, I might be in Slytherin but that doesn’t make me a bad person, or a gossip”
Remus took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. “I completely understand”
“You aren’t mad at me are you? I really do want to say who it is but I can’t betray Sirius’ word like that”
“I know I understand I’m actually glad you haven’t told me if he asked you to keep it private” Remus smiled pulling Regulus into a warm hug. “I admire the way you are, Regulus, I really do think you are a great person”
“Thank you” Regulus whispered.
They drew back enough and Regulus started grinning.
“What?” Remus chuckled.
Regulus shrugged. “I figure that if I can’t tell you, maybe we can go to Sirius and I can convince him to tell you”
Remus’ eyebrows shot into his hairline. “You think it will work?”
“I don’t know, maybe, but if it does then I won’t be breaking my promise, right?”
“Right!” Remus beamed. He let out a short laugh before gathering Regulus up in his arms and twirling them around. When he rested Regulus back on his feet they both burst into fits of laughter.
The Sixth Corridor....
“I don’t really know what’s been going on with me recently” Sirius breathed.
“Me neither” Severus swallowed.
Sirius studied his face long enough to see the amount of mixed emotions there.
“I think we should go before someone see’s us we’ve been here ages I don’t even know what time it is”
“I should be getting back to the Slytherin common room now anyway I’ve got things to do” Severus said his voice seemed to take it’s normal tone once again and he straightened up looking at Sirius with those dark cold eyes once again. But Sirius could see something more in them, something more along the lines of pleading.
“I need to get back before Remus kills me I think he’s waiting for me” Sirius said glancing warily over his shoulder towards the staircases.
“Why, does he want you to ram him?” Severus asked coldly.
“NO!! Remus is my friend you disgusting snake, he has a boyfriend!” Sirius spat before he could stop himself.
Severus’ face twinkled with curiosity and surprise. “Who is it?”
“None of your business”
“Hmph, typical Black always trying to protect his silly little friends” Severus sniffed.
Sirius rolled his eyes and sighed with annoyance. “If he wanted people to know they would have gone public by now, which they plan to in the new year so shut up and wait like the rest of the school”
“Hmm” Snape said suspiciously.
“Well if you don’t mind some of us have things to do other than hang about in corridor’s all day so if you don’t mind I’m leaving now” Sirius said before Severus could ask any more questions. He turned swiftly on his heels and began walking back down the corridor in the direction he came from.
He didn’t get very far before a voice stopped him in his tracks.
“Wait” said Snape.
Sirius stopped but didn’t turn a smile playing on his features.
“Perhaps we could meet up again sometime soon?” Severus’ voice was just the tiniest bit hopeful.
Sirius took a deep breath and looked over his shoulder. He flashed Severus a tiny smile and nodded. “Yeah, that’s cool”
“Great” Severus nodded smiling.
Sirius turned and continued down the corridor, he made his way out onto the staircases without turning back to even look at Severus. He knew he was still there.
Sirius’ mind was racing as he made his way into the Gryffindor common room and headed for the dormitory. He had kissed Snape, kissed him again. Two days in a row now.
Now he knew for sure there was something seriously wrong with him.
When he opened the dormitory door he was surprised to find Regulus and Remus standing there looking extremely nervous. They both turned simultaneously to stare at him watching as he shut the door behind him.
“Is there a problem?” Sirius asked the colour draining from his face. Maybe they knew something strange was going on.
The two boys looked to one another before Regulus nodded and turned to his brother to speak.
“Look Sirius….” Regulus began.
Sirius’ heart was hammering in his chest, they knew.
“We were just wondering if we could talk to you about something important.
“Okay” Sirius swallowed moving to sit on his bed gesturing for the other two to join him. He sat by his pillows the other two sitting side by side their hands locked together at the bottom of the bed.
“Remus and I have been talking and he asked me if I knew…. Who your baby’s father is”
A massive wave of relief hit Sirius and he actually sighed loudly.
The other two stared at him strangely.
“As I was saying….” Regulus continued. “I told him you swore me to secrecy so I couldn’t tell him but then I had this idea….”
“What?” Sirius asked calmly.
Regulus sank his teeth into his bottom lip and looked to Remus for help.
“He had the idea that if he couldn’t tell you himself, we could come to you together and ask you, I feel bad for asking him now it puts him in an awkward position but we just thought maybe I could find out” Remus rambled.
Sirius didn’t say anything.
“If you really don’t want to tell me then that’s fine but I promise I won’t tell anyone, I’ll pretend I don’t even know, James, Peter I won’t tell I soul I SWEAR” Remus’ blue eyes were wide, he was speaking honestly, Sirius knew him well enough to tell when he really meant something.
“Deal”
A look of happy surprise crossed both of their faces.
“But you have to swear not to tell anyone, you also can’t fall out with me over it I don’t want this to spoil our friendship or cause any upset, I don’t want you confronting him either” Sirius spoke his conditioned.
Remus contemplated them for just a second before he nodded. “I swear”
Sirius took a deep breath and closed his eyes momentarily. “It’s Snape”
The whole atmosphere in the room grew much darker. Sirius looked into Remus’ devastated face. He seemed to have lost all trace of colour and the ability to speak, his eyes were wide with shock and his mouth hung open.
For a while nobody said anything, this soon grew extremely daunting on Sirius who shifted uncomfortably on his bed.
“S-Snape?” Remus whispered.
Sirius gave a small nod as Regulus gently squeeze his hand reassuring him it was okay.
“Sirius…. Are you sure? I mean, Snape?” the werewolf shook his head in confusion.
“I’m afraid so” Sirius sighed, he wasn’t prepared for such a calm reaction even if Remus looked like someone had smacked him round the head with a shovel.
“Oh sweet Merlin….” Remus breathed staring down at his friend’s bed covers his left hand moving across his mouth in shock. Out of all the students in the school he really hadn’t expected it to be Severus of all people. This was bad, this was really, really bad. No way could he tell anybody, no way could James or Peter ever know about his, not that he’d tell anyone anyway, Remus wasn’t like that.
“Now you know why I didn’t want anyone to know” Sirius said slowly.
“I can’t believe this....” Remus breathed as Regulus opened their hands and gently pulled Remus in for a supportive cuddle.
“Well believe it, it’s true, he’s my baby’s dad, I am not joking so please don’t tell anybody” Sirius’ voice was pleading.
“I won’t you can trust me just like you’ve trusted Regulus” Remus said.
“Good and thank you, Remus you’re a great friend” Sirius smiled. “Reg you’re lucky to have someone like Remus in your life he’s one in a million you hang onto him nice a tight, there aren’t many good ones out there” he chuckled.
“I will don’t you worry nobody will have him off me” Regulus grinned pecking Remus on the cheek.
“You too, Moony, hang onto Reg” Sirius grinned.
“Of course I will, he’s amazing” Remus smiled pulling Regulus in for a proper kiss.
When they drew apart, Remus had a few more questions to ask Sirius. “So if he knows about the baby and he’s sending you presents for it, does that mean he wants to be in its life?” he asked curiously.
Sirius put his head in his hands and breathed deeply. “I don’t know what he wants, I have spoken to him but this is really only the first time he’s shown any interest towards the baby other than to tell me he doesn’t care and he doesn’t want anything to do with us”
“That’s disgusting” Remus wrinkled his nose angrily. “What kind of human being treats their unborn baby like that even if they are a teenager?”
“Snape apparently” Regulus sighed.
“Have you had a proper talk with him about this, it’s not who’s going to take care of a pet rat you know it’s a real baby that’s going to need so much when he or she gets here” Remus swallowed. Sirius could tell just how worried Regulus and Remus were.
“No not yet, I have only really talked to him once about it and he made sure to tell me exactly how he felt and how little he cared, he only did it to ruin my life, that’s what he said and he thought it was hilarious” Sirius swallowed the lump in his throat.
“WHAT?!”
“Remus please don’t start” Sirius sighed.
“He’s worried for you” Regulus said.
“I know but I can handle this myself”
“What are you planning to do about this? To me because he sent you a teddy and told you to take care he wants you and the baby to be okay he must care a little” Remus said quickly.
“I really have no idea” Sirius sighed.
“Maybe when you get big he will realise there is something he really needs to be a part of, maybe he will decide to step up there’s still time but the sooner the better really” Remus commented.
Sirius didn’t say anything for a while. “Let’s just leave this for today we can talk about it tomorrow or something it’s Christmas day there’s plenty of things we could be doing”
“Okay that’s only fair” Remus smiled looking to Regulus.
The rest of the day passed quickly and before they knew it, it was time for dinner.
“I’m really looking forward to a proper Christmas dinner here last night’s was delicious” Regulus commented as Remus threw the cloak over him and gently took his invisible hand.
“Me too we’re starved” Sirius commented resting a hand on his tummy. He wore only a long sleeve t-shirt his fourteen week old bump showing through the fabric. It would be the first time he showed it relatively properly in front of people even if there weren’t that many students to see. The ones who were there however, did turn to stare.
The three boys sat down, the table was piled high with food. From roast chicken, to beef, to gammon, fresh cooked vegetables, every kind of potato, salad and all the trimmings. Sirius began piling some of everything onto his plate excitedly, Remus had to warn him not to lick the potato spoon before putting it back into the bowl.
Remus couldn’t help but look up at the Slytherin table, his eyes wandered down to where Snape was sitting again with some younger students. He looked up from his plate expecting to stare at Sirius but was surprised when Lupin stared back, his eyes full of knowing.
Severus couldn’t tell whether Remus knew anything or not, maybe he was just staring out of curiosity there was no way Black would tell him about their little snogging matches. And then it hit him, maybe he told Remus about the baby’s father.
Swallowing he turned his attention back to the younger students trying to strike up conversation with them just to distract himself.
Remus couldn’t believe that Snape had the nerve to show himself within any sort of range of Sirius, let alone in the same room. How could he bare to be anywhere near him after what he did. Remus wasn’t going to say anything to him, at least not for a good while, Snape made him sick to his stomach but he was going to tolerate this for Sirius’ sake he didn’t want to upset the balance between the two boys any further.
When dessert appeared in front of them, Sirius piled Christmas cake with custard onto his plate, chocolate gateau, Christmas pudding, rice pudding, ice cream, strawberries and fresh cream.
“Wow Sirius you’re going to end up huge” Regulus quirked an eyebrow.
“All for baby, Reg” Sirius grinned shovelling forkful after forkful into his mouth.
The other two finished eating quite a while before Sirius did and sat watching him intently lick the plate clean.
“Shall we go back to the dorm?” Regulus asked finally.
“Yeah I’ve eaten so much I need to sleep it off” Sirius breathed rubbing his stomach gently.
They got up slowly and headed for the exit making their way through the entrance hall, up the staircases and straight to the Gryffindor tower. When they reached the corridor, Remus threw the cloak back over Regulus before they smuggled him back in, they’d gotten very good at looking extremely casual now.
When they arrived the few other Gryffindor students were talking on the sofa, Sirius heard one of them say loudly that they were off to bed.
“How about we stay down here for a while?” Sirius murmured to Remus who nodded.
They waited until the others had disappeared and gave them a few minutes before pulling the cloak off of Regulus and heading for the sofa. It would be the first time Regulus actually got to sit in the Gryffindor common room and he was going to make the most of it.
He sat beside Remus on the sofa who immediately flopped back against the arm rest and pulled Regulus down on top of him for a cuddle. Regulus gladly snuggled up to Remus resting his head on the slightly taller boy’s chest.
Sirius made himself comfortable down the other end resting his hands lightly on his little bump.
“Did you know that this week baby should be almost four inches long?” Sirius mused with a smile on his face as he gazed into the fire.
“Really?” it was Remus.
“Yeah and baby’ got all of his or her skeleton and organs sorted now they’re in place now their brain is going through rapid growth” Sirius replied. “Apparently the baby has tripled in size from just three weeks ago”
“Bloody hell that baby grows fast” Regulus breathed.
“Yeah and he or she is just going to get bigger, I wonder what I’m having I can’t wait to find out”
“Well it’s got to be one or the other” Remus chuckled.
“One percent of babies are born with both male and female genitalia” Regulus pointed out very unhelpfully.
“Oh thanks” Sirius winced. “Already a rarity and a miracle that I fell pregnant, let’s throw one further and have a man woman”
“I seriously doubt you will to be honest” Regulus sighed.
“Yeah your body has to give you a break” Remus chuckled.
Sirius was feeling pretty relaxed and happy he didn’t care even if they were teasing, he didn’t mind at all in fact. “You know this Christmas has been great, much better than I expected, I know this pregnancy is scary and it’s not exactly ideal but I’m actually rather enjoying it”
“That’s great” Regulus smiled.
“Yeah and you’d better enjoy it while it lasts, five and a half months and you’ll be holding your little baby” Remus pointed.
“Thanks for the reminder, Moony” Sirius chuckled.
They sat there together for a little while in the silence, only the sound of the crackling fire could be heard as well as their soft even breathing.
“How about we head up to bed I can’t keep my eyes open” Regulus yawned trying to force his eyes open.
“You think you’re tired? Try being me” Sirius smirked gently slapping Regulus on the thigh.
“Rather not thanks” Regulus cringed.
“Come on let’s get up to bed then” Remus smiled.
The three of them got up carefully, stretching they headed up into the dormitory, changed and were ready for bed in just a few minutes. Calling their goodnights they slipped under the covers happily. Regulus and Remus cuddled up together, Sirius lay on his side buried under his warm covers gazing at the light coloured teddy bear sitting on his bedside table.
All in all he had a good Christmas and one exciting thing still played on his mind. Although Christmas wasn’t over, he was still going to miss what happened on Christmas day.
A joyful little thought popped into his head, he would be meeting Snape again soon and hopefully it would be just as good if not better than this morning.
Sirius finally after some time allowed his eyes to close and sleep to claim him, dreams of a raven haired Slytherin boy ran through his head.
The rest of the week passed and the weekend was upon them.
Sirius had not seen hide nor hair of Severus except at meal times and he was usually too slow or the first one out of the great hall so he didn’t even really get the chance to see him or stalk him as Snape so kindly put it last time.
It was New Years Eve and Remus and Regulus were busy playing around in the bath together. There was to be a party tonight in the great hall for the students who decided to return early and for the ones already remaining. From the sounds of the posters the teachers had put up, it was supposed to be pretty cool.
Sirius was reading through a Quidditch magazine trying to ignore the giggles coming from the bathroom every few seconds.
Sirius flipped his magazine shut and headed over to the bathroom door rapping his knuckles against it impatiently trying to ignore the sounds coming from behind the door.
“Come on you guys get a move on or we’re going to end up late and you know how I love a great party” Sirius grinned excitedly.
“Coming!” Remus shouted his voice cracking slightly.
Sirius pretended to gag hoping to Merlin Regulus was not fellating him or something. Heading away from the bathroom he combed his hair and stared at his reflection in the mirror.
There was something better about how he looked. Well, he knew he was handsome with a great body and hair to die for but there was something about his skin that was sort of…. Enhanced, when he looked closer he seemed to be glowing, his eyes looked brighter, his hair looked more lustrous and he just looked all round much brighter, brighter than before he was pregnant.
“Sometimes I praise my hormones, tonight, I am bloody sexy” Sirius grinned admiring himself in the mirror.
“Checking yourself out in the mirror again?” Remus quirked an eyebrow as he and Regulus appeared in the doorway staring at him, thankfully they were fully dressed but both of them were flushed and excitable looking.
“I have to admit I am feeling very sexy this evening” Sirius commented.
Remus rolled his eyes and sighed. “Good for you”
“Right are we ready to go then?” Sirius grinned running his fingers through his hair once.
“Yes come on before precious here gets any more upset” Regulus shot a smirk to his brother making Remus laugh.
They left the dorm and headed down through the common room, even on the seventh floor they could hear the music lowly playing downstairs echoing through the rest of the castle.
The three of them slipped behind a corner, Remus pulled off the cloak and tucked it into the waistband of his trousers before they all headed down to the great hall.
Sirius’ face was a grin as they headed into the hall.
“Butterbeer?” Professor McGonagall offered him.
“Better not” he chuckled resting a hand on his little bump through his t-shirt.
“It’s safe” she smiled.
“Still better not risk it” Sirius flashed her a dazzling grin before passing inside. Both Remus and Regulus took a drink.
The great hall was heavily decorated with banners, streamers and still some of the Christmas decorations. The lights were low and music was blaring.
“Wow this is pretty cool!” Sirius grinned to the other two.
“Padfoot!”
Sirius whirled around as James and Peter came charging towards him, they looked tired and a little scruffy but still they were back!
“James, Peter!” Sirius beamed. “You’re back!”
“Wow look at you, Padfoot you’ve grown already!” James grinned gently resting his hand on Sirius’ tummy for a moment.
“I know but I am feeling great! Sirius laughed loudly over the music.
“So how was your Christmas?” Peter asked loudly watching Remus and Regulus dancing casually together.
“Oh it was great, these two spent most of it down each other’s throats” Sirius gestured to Remus and Regulus. “But we had fun, thanks for the presents by the way”
“Hey no problem, yours were cool too” James laughed.
For a little while the boys all danced together, Regulus was surprised how accepting Sirius’ friends were of him he didn’t expect James Potter to be the most accepting person in the world but he was fine with them even when he rested his hands on Remus’ hips and brushed up against him suggestively.
Sirius was actually getting into the swing of things, he turned around and spotted Snape standing by the doorway staring straight at him.
Their eyes locked for just a second and Severus tilted his head down before turning and walking out of the great hall glancing over his shoulder at Sirius.
Sirius quickly checked the clock, it was fifteen minutes until midnight, how long had they been dancing for now?
Biting his bottom lip he turned to see his friends, James was chatting up to girls across the other side of the room, Peter was busy at the buffet table and Remus was busy eyeing up Regulus as they were dancing together far too closely.
Sirius turned and hurried out of the great hall.
He made his way into the cooler entrance hall staring down the dungeon corridor, maybe Severus had gone back to his common room, maybe he didn’t really want Sirius to follow him.
“How nice to see you again, Black” Severus’ cool flat voice made him whirl around.
Severus was stood leaning against the door to a broom cupboard.
Sirius swallowed nervously and walked over to him.
“Now you can’t say I’ve been stalking you, Snape, you lured me out here” Sirius snarled.
“You make me sound like such a predator” Severus chuckled. He reached into his pocket pulling out his pocket watch checking the time he replaced it and smirked. “We’ve got some time, I normally wouldn’t be so crude but how about…. What I believe to be called ‘seven minutes in heaven’” Severus thumbed to the door he was leaning against over his shoulder.
“Oh how romantic I am flattered” Sirius said sarcastically fanning himself with his left hand. “What a romance you are, and there was me thinking you were just looking for a way to ram your tongue down my throat again”
An odd flicker ran across Severus’ face.
“Fine then, if you don’t want to then just go back and enjoy the part, we’ve got about ten minutes to go now anyway, why not make the most of it with your friends?”
Sirius hesitated before walking straight up to Snape and snarling. “Get in the fucking cupboard”
Severus smirked before unfolding his arms and opening the door. He stepped inside first and Sirius followed instantly slamming the door shut, he whirled around grabbing Snape by the front of his shirt he slammed him back into the door, his lips were on Snape’s before Severus could even catch a breath.
“You’d better be timing” Sirius hissed giving Severus the chance for a quick nod before moving in and kissing him so passionately and roughly once again.
Sirius wasted no time forcing his hand up Snape’s shirt, his fingers feeling all over the smaller boys torso.
Severus gasped as Sirius tweaked at his nipples playfully before pulling back and brushing the hair away from his neck before sinking his teeth into the supple, unprotected skin.
“Fuck” Severus whispered as Sirius began to lightly suckle on his neck, mindful of not leaving a mark. If there were no marks there was no proof of what they were doing.
Sirius kissed back up Severus’ neck and along his angular jawline before claiming the Slytherin’ small pink lips with his mouth again forcing his tongue into his mouth.
“Three minutes left” Severus whispered as Sirius drew his bottom lip into his mouth with a groan.
“Until new year?” Sirius panted hungrily running his fingers through Severus’ hair.
“No, left in here before we need to get out” Severus panted pressing his own kisses to Sirius’ lips. “Actually, make that two”
They kissed long and hard making the most of their remaining time together. Severus began the countdown from ten seconds into Sirius’ mouth as their kisses grew softer and softer.
“Three” he breathed as Sirius’ tongue flicked along his lips one last time.
“Two” he panted feeling Sirius’ hand leave from under his shirt.
“One” it was a whisper as Sirius pressed the last tender kiss to his lips before drawing back and staring into Severus’ flushed face through the darkness.
Sirius pulled open the broom cupboard door, sticking his head out trying not to look too suspicious or like he had just had it off with someone in a broom cupboard. He checked the coast was clear before slipping out and walking away.
“Black- Sirius” Severus called after him just loud enough for him to hear.
Sirius turned to face him.
“Your bump has grown” he pointed to Sirius’ tummy.
Sirius gave a weak smile and nodded. “Thanks” before turning and hurrying into the great hall hoping to Merlin nobody had noticed his absence.
He soon found his friends, Remus and Regulus appeared to be fighting the urge to suck each other’s faces off on the dance floor , James was sauntering around, the minute he spotted Sirius his face spread into a grin as he made his way to Remus and Regulus. Peter was already standing just a few feet away from them eyeing them warily like they were about to rip each other’s clothes off or something.
“Alright mate, where you been?” James called slinging an arm around Sirius’ shoulders.
“I just went out for some air” Sirius grinned.
James looked him straight in the eye a smirk spreading across his face.
“You’ve got that look in your eye, who was it?” he teased.
“Nobody” Sirius lied.
“No come on mate, tell me” James said playfully.
Sirius pursed his lips and shook his head.
“Was it someone fit?”
Sirius paused for a moment before he nodded slowly. “Yeah…. It was”
“Where?”
“Broom cupboard”
“Oooh you dirty git” James laughed as the music died down, the rest of the students appeared to be gathering towards the platform where the high tables were still situated. An enormous cloak appeared to have been charmed there using some of the streamers as a background and it was ticking down to midnight.
“Countdown!” someone called loudly over the crowd.
“Ten!” they chorused.
“You know I think this might have been one of the best Christmas’ I’ve ever had!” Sirius said loudly.
“Six!”
“Really?”
“Five!”
“Yeah Prongs, I have a feeling this new year is going to be great for all of us”
“Three”
“And I’ll get Lily?”
“Perhaps”
“Two!” the crowd chorused the excitement in the air building to bursting point.
“One” Remus whispered his arms around Regulus their lips were barely an inch apart as they leaned in closer and closer until.
“HAPPY NEW YEAR!!” the crowd roared as the two boys kissed furiously.
James, Sirius and Peter stood grinning and hollering at them but they seemed to ignore it.
For once Sirius wasn’t actually feeling jealous, he felt really good this evening. He looked over his shoulder but Severus wasn’t there he’d obviously gone back to his common room now to spend new year alone and that was okay with Sirius.
Although they weren’t together or anything he still harboured feelings for Snape, their relationship was confusing and complex but all in all Sirius looked forward to seeing what would happen between them and the baby in this new year.
He looked to Remus and Regulus once again who stood with their tongues rammed so far down each other’s throats Sirius was surprised they could actually breathe, no doubt they would keep it up all night. Sirius smiled at them, it was nice to see them both so happy.
He knew this year was going to be one he would remember for the rest of his life and Sirius Black could not wait to see what would happen in the next few coming weeks and months, with most importantly the baby, with his friends, with school, his family and of course, with Severus Snape….